PacketVideo powers Fujitsu's latest 3G handset

March 29, 2005

PacketVideo announced that a new handset from Fujitsu incorporates PacketVideo's pvPlayer multimedia software for high-quality video and audio playback. Fujitsu, a provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace, developed the handset for Japan's FOMA network, a 3G service developed by NTT DoCoMo. PacketVideo's pvPlayer, incorporated in the new FOMA F700i phone, enables multimedia services such as i-motion capabilities, music-player functions, and access to high-quality ChakuUta ring songs and ChakuMotion ring videos. The FOMA F700i was available nationwide beginning February 10 in Japan.

FOMA F700i is the eighth FOMA handset from Fujitsu that incorporates pvPlayer, following models F2051, F2102V, F900i, F900iT, F900iC, F880iES and F901iC.

"We congratulate Fujitsu on the success they've had in developing high-quality, feature-rich phones for FOMA. Delivering eight multimedia phones for NTT DoCoMo's advanced network is an incredible feat," said Jim Brailean, CEO of PacketVideo.

"Fujitsu positions 3G cell phones as important tools for extending the frontiers of communication, and we are developing cutting-edge products that are also easy to use," said Takashi Imamura, senior vice president of the Mobile Phones Unit at Fujitsu. "Multimedia functions are the most promising applications of the wider bandwidth of 3G networks. We will continue to work together with PacketVideo, who is in the mobile multimedia business worldwide, in order to make communications more diverse."

"We are happy that our multimedia software has been selected for Fujitsu's latest FOMA handset," said Kazunori Takagi, president of PacketVideo Japan. "Handsets will play a more and more important role in business and in daily life. PacketVideo will continue to focus on developing technology infrastructure for truly easy-to-use and useful multimedia functions."